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It's that time of the year once again, happy Pride Month. 🐸

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As someone that works with lots of Trump voters and has a number of Trump voter family members, I can say with total confidence that most of them genuinely do not know what they voted for. They do not listen to the content of speeches or read proposals for laws or policies, they vote on vibes.

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Tomorrow starts pride month, please send me $10 a day until the month ends

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Our exclusive investigation into how a group has turned a chatbot into a custom tool for convincing city councils to pull out of climate agreements. And it's working.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

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ancient friends

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Whatcheeria and Deltaherpeton: two pretty big smooth guys from Carboniferous Iowa

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cis people: please call your senators today. Please please please. this is so critical. we’re begging you

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Tourian Super Metroid in 5 point perspective

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Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

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Here's my recent painting of the Otway Basin, Australia, during the late Albian. It was commissioned by Vera Korasidis & Barbara Wagstaff, at University of Melbourne, for this paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Megaraptor #WildlifeArt #PaleoPlants #Paleobotany

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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

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Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (2/5) On May 16 the gallery starts-featuring the amazingly talented @lordtrilobite.bsky.social @stievenvdp.bsky.social @nromanek.bsky.social @acasualwalnut.bsky.social @palaeojules.bsky.social Get tickets for the networking event at tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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And here it is, our second Cambrian formation piece! This time we visited the even older Surius Passet from Greenland, our first real deep sea deposit. #paleostream

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I'm so excited for the world to see what we've been working on. It is such a genuine joy to see my babies out in the world! Walking with Dinosaurs - coming soon.

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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Hello #PortfolioDay! I illustrate extinct animals and their environments.

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Why not, I'm not available to hire or commission (yet!) but it's #portfolioday, gaze upon my works and.. rejoice! I do #paleoart and as of recent, #mecha art.

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The company can’t get basic skeletal anatomy correct but sure let’s trust them to “deextinct” species 🧪

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Decided to make this texture in Aseprite. Here are some steps I am planning next: -Set up a UE5 level for presentation -Make graffiti stencils to apply as independent decals -Completion of Roughness, Normal and Opacity Maps #Blender #B3d #Gameart #Pixelart

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what the hell happened to my shark

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Well today's the day, I don't really have much plan now that I can be seen by the naked eye rather than purely measured by scientific instruments, but here's a piece i did a couple years ago. Happy Trans Visibility #TransVisibility

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Diplocaulus, weirdo amphibian dude from the late Carboniferous to late Permian period. His markings are based off of a fire bellied toad. #paleoart #paleontology #Carboniferous #dinosaurart #permian #prehistoric

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Indie devs, show off ur art style ✧˖°

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Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you: aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

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if it wasn't clear, I am viciously opposed to generative-ai. I am opposed to the theft of art and writing to coddle those without imagination or skill, I am opposed to the way it has decimated careers. asking me to participate in a paid sponsorship for generative-ai is not only laughable but cruel.

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You Americans rampage your way through the world--bombing, shooting, drone-striking and couping left, right and center--and you have the audacity to be whiny when the people you are killing en masse dare to have an opinion about about what you have done for decades.

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Snuggles, mist showers, and mealtime for World Frog Day! 🐸 Our magnificent tree frogs love to climb with their sticky toe pads and enjoy misting sessions as enrichment. Meanwhile, our tiny but bold poison dart frogs get their toxicity from wild diets and use their bright colors to warn predators.

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IT'S HAPPENING! Last night was warm (for March) and now there are lots of Wood Frog eggs in the pond! The dark cluster on the right were just deposited. Soon they'll take on water and expand so they look like the clump in the middle, each in a clear, jelly-like ball. #herps 🌿

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I was very much looking forward to this #paleostream! The tranquil of the Devonian Rhynie Chert fascinated me for a while. This geothermal wetland preserves some of the specimens of early landplants and is witness to the conquest of land by animals.

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Honestly this is the whole thing. While there are some professional bigots who will never change, I truly think a ton of everyday people who have been brainwashed by the hate campaign against trans folks would stop after meeting and learning from real trans folks. That's why they wanna silence us.

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Cincinnati made history last week by establishing the state’s first-known city commission dedicated solely to advising the City Council on LGBTQ+ issues. #LGBTQ #Ohio #Cincinnati #RepresentationMatters ✏️ @bjodway.bsky.social

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A recent study found that plants are losing their ability to take up CO2. This is just one out of several existential threats they face. Plants and forests are also dying all over the world due to oxidative stress. The cause—ozone emitted by our modern industrial systems. 🧵 1/

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FEBRUARY 28TH 10AM PST!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7b...

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Saw on Mastodon that Firefox updated their "terms and use" yesterday and www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/... Per archive.org this isn't present in older (Feb 9) versions of the text. W…what is this? This is more like a clause you'd find on a website than a piece of software you run on your computer.

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Hello, I am an artist and palaeo student who just moved to bluesky (previously only posted on tumblr). I like drawing strange animals in interesting landscapes. Some examples of my recent art: #palaeoart #scientificart

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Results from the #paleostream! Petrustitan (tackling Hatzegopteryx), Procyon megalokos approaching a Erethizon poyeri (a wish by @dynamoterror.bsky.social), Eophyseter and Calligenethlon

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Greererpeton burkemorani 🐸 #paleoart #sciart #carboniferous

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Joined in today's #Paleostream Flocking Together to do some #sciart with the rest of the gang. I was mostly into drawing "threat displays" today. -Eryops -Plateosaurus -Mahuidacursor -Koreaceratops #paleoart #art #sketch #dinosaur

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Even if their fossil collections were somehow rehoused at other institutions, the potential closure of the Paleontological Research Institute would be an incalculable loss to specimen-based research. It would also eliminate an immensely important educational facility for students and the public. 🧪

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The fact that most academic conferences force people to attend in person to participate is a travesty and I want to see it end. Us nerds who just want to talk about science with our colleagues do NOT need to fly halfway across the world in an under-regulated tin can full of covid to do so.

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after multiple years of keeping my mouth shut, I can finally release the art i made for Kotevski (@dinoman-jake.bsky.social) et al., (2025)'s recently published paper they describe carcharodontosaur and unenlagiine material from australia, as well as new megaraptorid material #AusPalaeo #paleoart

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Last Thursday, a publication I coauthored was published in The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. In the publication, we provided a revised diagnosis and description of the Pennsylvanian embolomere Calligenethlon watsoni. The data can be accessed @ MorphoSource.org via media # 0006677245